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Reloaded Advertising, a Vancouver-based in-game advertising agency, has announced the launch of a new tool that provides fully-automated reporting and campaign analysis for dynamic in-game advertising campaigns. The reporting provides simple, yet essential stats like impressions, clicks, and click-through rates (CTRs), which still isn’t a widespread offering amongst in-game advertising networks and companies. Read the rest of this entry »

TVO is pleased to announce that the Ontario Government has appointed former Science North CEO Jim Marchbank of Sudbury and Waterloo entrepreneur Toby Jenkins to TVO’s Board of Directors for three-year terms.  Read the rest of this entry »

Relaxnews, a Paris-based provider of  lifestyle and leisure news, and Quebec-based BE Interactive have signed an agreement for joint expansion in Canada. The agreement, which took effect on July 1st, will bring together the content offering and editorial, marketing and technological expertise of the two firms. The partnership will take the form of a usage license for the AFP-Relaxnews wire service accorded to BE Interactive.
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OpenText Corporation and EasyLink Services International Corporation announced yesterday that the merger of EasyLink with an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of OpenText has been completed. The merger was approved by the stockholders of EasyLink at a special meeting held earlier today. As a result of the merger, EasyLink became an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of OpenText. Read the rest of this entry »

Route1, a Toronto-based security and identity management company whose customers include the U.S. Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Energy, the Department of the Interior, and the Canadian Government, today announced the launch of its eStore. Read the rest of this entry »

Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. announced earlier today that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement dated June 27, 2012 pursuant to which Rainmaker Studios Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xing Xing Digital Corporation, has agreed to acquire certain assets comprising substantially all of Rainmaker’s animation studio assets. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has closed its investigation into Rogers Communications’ Internet traffic management practices. The CRTC is satisfied that Rogers has addressed its concerns regarding the company’s practice of slowing down certain types of Internet traffic. Read the rest of this entry »

Via the Trade Commissioners’ Office: Game Nation is headed to Casual Connect 2012 in Seattle, ground zero for the casual gaming industry.  The conference, which will take place at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall this July 24th to 26th, attracts over 2,500 industry professionals with a cutting edge lecture series and highly popular nightly networking events. Read the rest of this entry »

The BCTIA, together with DigiBC, Cleantech CEO Alliance and Wavefront, collaborated with KPMG to prepare a Technology Report Card for British Columbia. On the heels of the Jenkins report last fall and the innovation agenda put forth in the recent federal budget, our intent was to examine the performance of the technology industry in our own province. We asked KPMG to assess the industry performance over the past decade in the context of the BC economy and in comparison to tech sectors in other regions. Read the rest of this entry »

The Federal government has delivered its much-anticipated budget, and its proposed changes to the $3.6 Billion SR&ED (“Scientific Research & Experimental Development”) program. These changes are strongly aligned with the broad recommendations of the Jenkins Report issued October 2011. Read the rest of this entry »